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Well, it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to update the website.
It only took me a weekend to set the thing up (that is, after years of thinking about it), but I didn’t really plan for how time-intensive keeping content flowing would be. Not to mention, trying to have a creative side-project like this going, while keeping my creative screenwriting career afloat.
But now that I finally have a couple days free, there’s just so much I want to say. So much I want to share – music I’ve heard and movies I’ve seen that I want to write about. So I better get to it.
I’ve also got some incredible interviews with filmmakers I’m lining up, that I’ll be posting here in the next few weeks. And saving up for eventual inclusion in the SubVerse book.
I’ve been getting clearer on the concept for the book.
It’ll consist of in-depth conversations with writers and directors working on the edge, pushing at the boundaries of cinema, and questioning mainstream ideas about how and why films are made.
There will also be a number of sidebar sections, with filmmakers waxing about their favorite obscure films. A rare celebration of cinephelia among makers of cinema.
Recently, I’ve been seeing a ton of movies. I think I’ve seen around 100 movies in four months – and almost none of them have been currently released films. Rather, I’ve been seeing political documentaries, foreign films, unreleased American indies and films from the 70s – at revival houses and late night on DVD. These past few months in New York have been filled with festivals, and I’ve been becoming a real little cinephile.
This past week, I’ve seen nearly a dozen films at the Tribeca Film Fest here in town, and over the next few days, I’m going to try to write a little about what I’ve seen.
Only one was truly terrible, and at least two of them were unmissable masterpieces – which, sadly, and of course, will never get American distribution.
But never forget, a little persistence can get you a long way.
I recently read about a small Austrian documentary that sounded incredible. Thanks to the internet, I managed to track down and contact the film’s distributor in Luxembourg, who put me in touch with the filmmaker, who ended up sending me a DVD of the film himself.